Eurovision Song Contest 1995 - YouTube Eurovision Song Contest 1995 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012 The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 13 May 1995 in the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. The presenter was Mary Kennedy. This contest broke the chain of victories that Ireland enjoyed in 1992, 1993, and 1994. This was Ireland's 3rd year in succession to host the contest - and to mark the 40th show, it was opened with a 4-minute retrospective showing images from the contest's history. The Norwegian group Secret Garden was the winner of this contest with the mostly instrumental song, "Nocturne". Incidentally, Secret Garden's violinist was Fionnuala Sherry, who is Irish.

Two of Ireland's winners attended the contest; Dana, who was Ireland's first winner, winning the contest in 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", and Mr Eurovision himself, Johnny Logan, winning the contest as a singer in 1980 and 1987 ("What's Another Year?" and "Hold me Now" respectively), and also for writing Linda Martin's 1992 winning song "Why Me?". It was his birthday that night, but according to host Kennedy, "He wouldn't say which one"! Nonetheless, the audience sang "Happy Birthday" for him, assisted by the orchestra. After winning the 1994 contest, RTÉ were worried about whether they could afford to host a third consecutive contest in 1995. The BBC had offered to take on the responsibility of hosting the contest, and had even proposed that the contest be staged as a joint production in Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland. In the end RTÉ decided to stage the contest on its own. However they did ask the EBU that, should Ireland win once more, that they would not be expected to host the event for a fourth year in a row.

The full contest in British Commentary Category Winners of the 1990s - What happened to them? | News | Eurovision Song Contest Winners of the 1990s - What happened to them? Katrina and the Waves won for the United Kingdom in 1997. Published 29 Sep 2011 at 00:16 Written by Tweet In the latest of our series of articles about past winners, we now take a look into what happened to the 10 winning artists of the 1990's. Did they go on to have big careers after the contest? Find out here! We've had quite a journey so far, looking at all the winners of the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. Now we are moving onwards and upwards, slowly edging homeward bound and have reached the 1990s. This decade marked some huge advances in technology and many changes to the contest itself. 1994 for example was the first year votes were given on screen, with a live satellite connection beaming the images of all the spokepersons around Europe.

We also saw many new countries joining the contest for the first time in 1993 and 1994 as a result of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the breakup of Yugoslavia. Also, if that wasn't enough Ireland set a remarkable record... They won three times in a row! Now, that's going to take a lot of beating. In 1999 one of the most radical changes happened to the contest when the orchestra was scrapped in favour of backing tracks, and the rule only allowing entries in the official language(s) of the participating countries was also dropped. Take a look below to discover who the winners were between 1990 and 1999 and what they got up to after the contest. 1990 - Toto Cutugno (Italy) Born in 1943, Toto Cutugno has an impressive CV. He started his career in a band and writing music before going on to participate in the Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo a total of 13 times. He also won it in 1980 and 1983.

In 1990, Toto participated in Europe's favourite TV show in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (Croatia) where he won with his European themed song, Insieme: 1992. Following the competition, he went on to present the 1991 contest in Rome together with the 1964 winner, Gigliola Cinquetti. He also took part in the Sanremo festival again in 2005. 1991 - Carola Häggkvist (Sweden) Carola Maria Häggkvist was born in Stockholm in 1966 and started singing at the tender age of 8 and went on to win a talent competition in 1977. Her career, however, didn't really take off until 1983 when she participated in Europe's favourite TV show with the song Främling, achieving a very respectable 3rd place in Munich. Following the contest, she experienced phenomenal success at home and abroad, with her album, Främling which set records for the number of sales in Sweden.

In 1991, Carola entered and won the Eurovision Song Contest again for Sweden in Rome with the song Fångad av en stormvind. One of the most tense moments in the history of contest saw Sweden draw with France's Amina, both receiving 146 points. Both countries received the exact number of 12 points, but Sweden had 5 sets of 10 points versus France's two, which in the end sealed victory for Carola. Following her win, Carola went on to great things, releasing many singles and albums, appearing in musicals and on television and being the subject of intensive tabloid coverage as one of Sweden's most sought-after celebrities. In what was seen as a bit of a come back, Carola won the right to represent Sweden in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece. Her song Invincible achieved a very respectable 5th place in final. Since 2006, Carola has continued to perform and record, also entering the Swedish final in 2008 together with Andreas Johnson but this attempt wasn't as successful as her previous efforts, unfortunately!

1992 - Linda Martin (Ireland) Born in Omagh, Northern Ireland in 1953, Linda Martin has had a long and distinguised musical career, which continues to this day. She started out with the Belfast band, Chips in the late sixties, who made quite a name for themselves in Ireland. They also appeared in a number of national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest but were never successful. In the early 80s, Linda decided to go it alone and formed a solo career for herself, and entered the Irish national final on her own merit a further 4 times. In 1984 she entered with the song Terminal 3 written by Johnny Logan, which won and went on to represent Ireland in Luxembourg. She came second to Sweden's The Herreys. In 1992 Linda and Johnny entered another song into the contest, which that took place in Malmö, Sweden. Why Me won the competition for Ireland and Linda's attempts at Euro victory finally paid off. It was also a record for Johnny Logan, who had won the competition 3 times... Twice as an artist, and once as a composer.

Following on from the competition, Linda has gone on to have a very successful career. Most recently she has been involved in the UK's X-Factor competition and has also found a niche judging televised talent competitions in Irelannd as well as performing in musicals. 1993 - Niamh Kavanagh (Ireland) Born in 1968, Niamh Kavanagh was part of a musical family with many musical rolemodels. Early on in her career, Niamh performed on the soundtrack for the film The Commitments. In 1993, Niamh entered the Irish national final with the song In Your Eyes which won with a rather large margin, rocketing her into the spotlight when she went on to win the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest in Millstreet, County Cork. This was the second victory for Ireland in a row and the fifth in total. The voting was exciting as Niamh and Sonia from the United Kingdom were in a two horse race for most of it, but in the end Niamh won and enjoyed a home crowd reception. Following the competition, In Your Eyes was a hit both in Ireland and also the UK.

Niamh also went to record in the USA and appeared on TV shows and stages back home. In 2010 after a break from music, Niamh entered Europe's favourite TV show once again with the song, It's For You, which went on to represent Ireland in Oslo. Here she qualified to the final, where she came third last ahead of Belarus and the United Kingdom. Niamh has as a result of her participations become much loved by the contest's community of fans, appearing at fan events and always endeavouring to respond to messages of support she receives. 1994 - Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan (Ireland) Paul Harrington, born in 1960 and Charlie McGettigan born in 1950 were responsible for Ireland's third consecutive win at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 with the song Rock 'n' Roll Kids. Both men have musical backgrounds with Harrington previously having released material in the early 90s and also working with Michael Flatley, responsible for Riverdance who were made famous by performing in the interval act of the 1994 contest.

After winning Europe's favourite TV show at the Point Theatre in Dublin, both men went on to have varying degrees of success with both Paul and Charlie recording more music and appearing on various TV shows. Charlie also appeared in the Congratulations 50th anniversary show of the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen in 2005. 1995 - Secret Garden (Norway) Secret Garden is an Irish-Norwegian due comprising of Rolf Løvland and violinist Fionnuala Sherry. The group has had an amazing amount of success following the competition. Rolf Løvland is probably most known for his previous work as a composer of Norwegian national final and Eurovision Song Contest entries. He in fact wrote the winner of the 1985 contest with the song La det swinge performed by Bobbysocks. Fionnuala Sherry started playing the violin at a very young age and went on to work with a number of very successful artists and groups including Sinéad O'Connor, Chris de Burgh and U2. In 1995 Secret Garden entered Europe's favourite TV show for Norway with the self-penned song, Nocturne.

The song was originally an instrumental only number but lyrics and a vocalist by the name of Gunnhild Tvinnereim joined Rolf and Fionnuala on stage in Dublin. Here, Norway won the competition convincingly and had success with the song. Following the competition, Secret Garden has had global success, including charting for a whole two months in the United States. The group have released a number of albums and Rolf Løvland composed one of the world's most covered songs, You Raise Me Up, which has been performed by amongst others Westlife, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Josh Groban and Il Divo. However, Irelands participant in 2006, Brian Kennedy was the first artist to perform this song. 1996 - Eimear Quinn (Ireland) Born in Dublin, Eimear Quinn was part of a very musical family. She started singing choral music from a very young age and joined her first choir at just 4 years old. In 1995 she became a solist in the chamber choir Anúna, which is where she was discovered by Brendan Graham.

He suggested she sang his song, The Voice, which went on to represent Ireland at the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway. Here, Eimear won the competition quite convincingly bringing Ireland their 4th victory in 5 years, with Norway breaking this winning streak in 1995. Following her victory, Eimear was much sought after both in Europe and further afield in countries such as Australia and the United States. Since then she has gone from strength to strength, continuing to record and also becoming a successful composer. In 2007, Eimear appeared in a documentary about her music on broadcaster RTÉ. Most recently she performed from HM Queen Elizabeth II in May 2011 during her historical state visit to the Republic of Ireland. 1997 - Katrina and the Waves (United Kingdom) Katrina and the Waves were one of the most successful acts to perform in the Eurovision Song Contest, with a long and successful career preceding their participation. The group, featuring American singer Katrina Leskanich and the band The Waves can trace their roots back to 1978 when Katrina joined. Their beginnings were humble, performing small gigs in the UK.

Fellow band member Kimberley Rew lead the band initially before gradually handing over the singing responsibilities to Katrina. Initially the band had success in Canada with their first album, Walking On Sunshine in 1983. Following on from this and spurred on by the success in Canada, the album was reworked and Walking On Sunshine was released in 1985 all over the world, become a huge hit including in the US and the UK where it reached the top 10 in both countries. After this success, the band experienced a bit of a slump until Kimberley Rew wrote the song Love Shine A Light, which then went on to become the United Kingdom's entry in the 1997 edition of Europe's favourite TV show. The song won by a landslide with a (then) record margin of 70 over Ireland, which came second. This record has since been broken by Norway's Alexander Rybak. After achieving the UK's 5th victory at the contest, Love Shine A Light gave Katrina and the Waves their best ever chart position in the UK, peaking at number 3. It also had big success also over Europe. Since the competition the band has disbanded after not being able to keep their post-victory momentum.

Katrina has gone on to present the Congratulations 50th anniversary show of the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen in 2005 and in the same year participated in the Swedish national final, Melodifestivalen. Other than the above, Katrina makes occasional appearances at Eurovision Song Contest related events and has recorded new material as a soloist. Most recently she and her ex-band colleagues have been involved legal action against an American presidential candiate for using Walking On Sunshine in her campaign material. 1998 - Dana International (Israel) Dana International was born as Yaron Cohen in Tel Aviv in 1972. Although born a male, Yaron discovered from an early age that he was not happy with this identity and after having a happy upbringing decided to come out as a female at the young age of 13. Dana International's biggest idol was singer Ofra Haza who represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1983 with the song Chai. In the early 90s Dana International became Israel's first drag queen and was discovered by a well known DJ, releasing her first single in 1993.

It was also at this time when she had surgery and legally changed her name to Sharon Cohen. Following this her first album was released catapulting her to success in Israel and neighbouring countries. Having previously tried to enter the Eurovision Song Contest in 1995 with the song Layla Tov, Eropa, Dana decided to give it another go in 1998 where she was chosen to represent Israel with the song Diva. At the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, she won after some very exciting voting and became a huge star and appeared on television not only in Europe but also in the United States and other countries around the world. Following her success in Birmingham, Dana has had a very distinguished career, appearing in the Congratulations 50th anniversary show and also composing Israel's entry in 2008, which finished 9th in the final. Her career has also seen her appearing on television and recording new material. She has also very recently represented Israel once again in Düsseldorf for the 2011 edition of Europe's favourite TV show. However, her song Ding Dong failed to make it to the final.

1999 - Charlotte Nilsson (Sweden) Born in 1974 as Anna Jenny Charlotte Nilsson, Charlotte had a long career before taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest. Her career started at the age of 13, when she performed with the dansband the Bengt Ingvars. She then continued to work with another band, the Anders Engbergs before joining the group Wizex in 1997. This period of her life gave her some of her best success at home in Sweden and set her up for entering the Swedish national final, Melodifestivalen in 1999. In Jerusalem in 1999, Charlotte won the contest with the song Take Me To Your Heaven, sung in English as the language rules had been relaxed this years. The song gave her a lot of success and she got to travel around Europe and the middle east on promotional trips. Following on from her win, Charlotte released more music and presented Melodifestivalen in 2003 and 2004. She also got married and changed her name to Perrelli in 2003.

In 2008, Charlotte decided to take part in Melodifestivalen once again, this time as an artist. Her song Hero won the competition by a small margin and went on to represent Sweden in Belgrade. The song was one of the early favourites to win the entire competition, but only managed to achieve an 18th place in the final. In the final part of the the series we will take a look at all of the winners of the Millennium so far from 2000 to 2011. Who was your favourite winner of the 1990s? About: Eurovision Song Contest 1995 About: Eurovision Song Contest 1995 An Entity of Type : Event100029378 , from Named Graph : , within Data Space : dbpedia.org The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 13 May 1995 in the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. The presenter was Mary Kennedy. This year's competition was the last with only one host until 18 years later in 2013 in Malmö, Sweden.

This contest broke the chain of victories that Ireland enjoyed in 1992, 1993, and 1994. This was Ireland's 3rd year in succession to host the contest - and to mark the 40th show, it was opened with a 4-minute retrospective showing images from the contest's history. The Norwegian group Secret Garden was the winner of this contest with the mostly instrumental song, "Nocturne". Incidentally, Secret Garden's violinist was Fionnuala Sherry, who is Irish. Property abstract El XL Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión tuvo lugar el 13 de mayo de 1995 en el Point Theatre de Dublín, Irlanda, con Mary Kennedy de presentadora. Secret Garden fue la banda vencedora con el tema new-age "Nocturne". El tema representante de Noruega, que era en su mayor parte instrumental y constaba de tan solo 24 palabras, consiguió 148 votos, muy por delante de la segunda clasificada, España, que consiguió 119.

Ésta ha sido, hasta la fecha, la última ocasión en la que España ha quedado en el "Top-5". Desde entonces, la posición más alta alcanzada por un representante español ha sido la sexta de Marcos Llunas (en 1997) y de David Civera en (2001). Suecia, que comenzó liderando la votación en un mano a mano con Noruega, acabaría ocupando la tercera plaza al ser adelantada por Anabel Conde. El cuarto puesto fue para Francia y el quinto para Dinamarca. Con motivo del 40º aniversario del festival, al comienzo de la retransmisión se emitió un vídeo especial con imágenes de toda su historia. Tras este vídeo, la presentadora Mary Kennedy hizo entrada bajando una gran escalinata que se iluminaba a su paso, y una vez había bajado, la escalinata ascendió en el aire con un efecto pirotécnico, descubriéndose un escenario en el que el fondo era una continuación en vertical de la plataforma principal.

La escenografía fue obra de Alan Farquharson, quién también había diseñado el escenario de 1993. (es) The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 13 May 1995 in the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. The presenter was Mary Kennedy. This year's competition was the last with only one host until 18 years later in 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. This contest broke the chain of victories that Ireland enjoyed in 1992, 1993, and 1994. This was Ireland's 3rd year in succession to host the contest - and to mark the 40th show, it was opened with a 4-minute retrospective showing images from the contest's history. The Norwegian group Secret Garden was the winner of this contest with the mostly instrumental song, "Nocturne". Incidentally, Secret Garden's violinist was Fionnuala Sherry, who is Irish.

Two of Ireland's winners attended the contest; Dana, who was Ireland's first winner, winning the contest in 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", and Mr Eurovision himself, Johnny Logan, winning the contest as a singer in 1980 and 1987 ("What's Another Year?" and "Hold me Now" respectively), and also for writing Linda Martin's 1992 winning song "Why Me?". It was his birthday that night, but according to host Kennedy, "He wouldn't say which one!" Nonetheless, the audience sang "Happy Birthday" for him, assisted by the orchestra. After winning the 1994 contest, RTÉ were worried about whether they could afford to host a third consecutive contest in 1995. The BBC had offered to take on the responsibility of hosting the contest, and had even proposed that the contest be staged as a joint production in Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland. In the end RTÉ decided to stage the contest on its own. However they did ask the EBU that, should Ireland win once more, that they would not be expected to host the event for a fourth year in a row.

The favourite to win the contest, according to bookmakers, was Sweden with the pop-ballad "Se på mig". Other countries in contention for the win were Croatia, Denmark, Israel, Spain, and the eventual winner, Norway. The winning song was something new at Eurovision in that it contained only 24 words accompanied by long violin solos. The United Kingdom contributed a modern rap number, while the previous year’s runner-up, Poland, went for something that completely contrasted with their début entry. After the voting was completed, Norway was the winner with 148 points, followed by Spain's "Vuelve conmigo" with 119 points, and Sweden gaining 100 points. The stage was designed by Alan Farquharson who also designed the set of the 1993 contest that took place in Millstreet, Ireland. Although it was quite dark and often gloomy in appearance, it did form the basis for a spectacular opening whereby a giant screen rotated to reveal the presenter who descended a stairway which ultimately disappeared to allow for the arrow shaped stage to come together amid fireworks.

The interval act consisted of several well known Irish performers including Clannad, Brian Kennedy (who would go on to actually represent Ireland 11 years later as well as collaborate with the winning group) and was composed by leading musician Michael O'Suilleabhan. The EBU decreased the number of participants back to 23 to make sure the show wouldn't last longer than 3 hours. 5 of the 6 countries that were relegated the previous year came back to the contest, Luxembourg decided to stop participating completely and Italy withdrew voluntarily, as in 1994. There was much speculation in Ireland as to whether RTÉ had deliberately chosen a song perceived as not having a good chance of winning in order to avoid hosting the contest for a fourth time in a row - although this was never verified. This rumour did, however inspire a popular episode of Father Ted. In any event, RTÉ ended up hosting the contest once again in 1997. (en) Der 40. Eurovision Song Contest fand am 13. Mai 1995 im Point Theatre in Dublin statt. Nach drei irischen Siegen in Folge gewann Norwegen mit Nocturne.

(de) Le Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1995 fut la quarantième édition du concours. Il se déroula le samedi 13 mai 1995, à Dublin, en Irlande. Il fut remporté par la Norvège, avec la chanson Nocturne, interprétée par Secret Garden. L’Espagne termina deuxième et la Suède, troisième. (fr) Il quarantesimo Concorso Eurovisione della Canzone si tenne a Dublino (Irlanda) il 13 maggio 1995.

(it) 第40回ユーロビジョン・ソング・コンテスト(Eurovision Song Contest 1995)は、1995年5月13日(土曜日)にアイルランド・ダブリンのポイント劇場で開催された。製作：RTÉアイルランド放送協会。プレゼンターマリー・ケネディで、アイルランド語と英仏の3ヶ国語を使用。オープニングでは、コンテストの40年を振り替えるビデオ・プログラムが上映された。放送時間2時間51分。 (ja) Het Eurovisiesongfestival 1995 was het veertigste Eurovisiesongfestival en vond plaats op 13 mei 1995 in Dublin, Ierland.Het programma werd gepresenteerd door Mary Kennedy.Van de 23 deelnemende landen won Noorwegen met het nummer Nocturne, uitgevoerd door Secret Garden.Dit lied kreeg 148 punten, 11,1% van het totaal aantal punten.Met 119 pun

ten werd Spanje tweede, gevolgd door Zweden op de derde plaats met 100 punten.

De presentatrice Mary Kennedy prees het thuisland dat Ierland voor een nieuw Eurovisierecord had gezorgd: nooit eerder zond hetzelfde land het festival uit in drie opeenvolgende jaren. Aangezien dat jaar het festival voor de veertigste maal werd uitgezonden, begon de uitzending met een korte terugblik op de voorgaande jaren vanaf het begin van het festival met alle winnaars en memorabele momenten nog eens op een rijtje. Dit jaar deden er weer 23 landen mee aan het festival, in vergelijking met 25 in 1994 en 1993. Dit kwam door de uitsluiting van de negen laagst scorende landen uit 1994. Na de grote uitbreiding van de songfestivalfamilie in 1994 met Centraal- en Oost-Europese landen, was hun inbreng nu lager door de uitsluiting van vier van deze nieuwkomers.

Door het slechte resultaat van Willeke Alberti in 1994, mocht Nederland niet meedoen dit jaar. België mocht na een jaar afwezigheid opnieuw deelnemen. Eén van de grote kanshebbers voor de titel die vooraf getipt werden, was Zweden met een pop-ballad. Andere landen die volgens de bookmakers een kans zouden maken, waren Denemarken, Slovenië, Noorwegen en Ierland. Opvallende bijdragen kwamen onder andere van Polen, die het jaar ervoor aan de overwinning kon ruiken, maar dat dit jaar voor een heel apart, bijna experimenteel, nummer koos. Noorwegen pakte het helemaal anders aan: de Noren hadden een ingetogen en bijna instrumentaal nummer ingezonden dat nog geen dertig woorden bevatte, en min of meer gedragen werd door een lange vioolsolo. Het Verenigd Koninkrijk probeerde het songfestival te moderniseren en probeerden dat te bewerkstelligen met een rap-nummer.

Paul de Leeuw verzorgde het Nederlandse commentaar en zorgde ook voor enige commotie tijdens de uitzending. Toen de Israëlische inzending op het toneel verscheen, begon Paul de Leeuw aan een verbale tirade gericht op Israël. Op een gegeven moment bedreigde hij zelfs de Israëlische artiesten om vervolgens een paar minuten niets van zich te laten horen. Veel kijkers waren verontwaardigd en er stroomden telefoontjes binnen bij de NOS, van zowel mensen die dachten dat Paul de Leeuw werkelijk iets zou doen, als van mensen die hun verontwaardiging uitten. (nl) O Festival Eurovisão da Canção (1995) foi o 40º e teve lugar a 13 de Maio de 1995 em Dublin, Irlanda. A apresentadora do evento foi Mary Kennedy.

O duo irlando-norueguês Secret Garden foi o vencedor deste festival com a canção Nocturne (Nocturno) que representou a televisão pública norueguesa (NRK). De salientar que esta canção foi quase totalmente interpretada instrumentalmente, sendo a parte vocal muito pequena (poucos segundos), não tendo a letra (em norueguês e inglês) mais que cinco versos. (pt) 40. Konkurs Piosenki Eurowizji został zorganizowany 13 maja 1995 roku w Point Theatre w Dublinie przez irlandzkiego nadawcę Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), dzięki zwycięstwu reprezentantów Irlandii – Paula Harringtona i Charliego McGettigana podczas konkursu w 1994 roku. Koncert finałowy prowadziła Mary Kennedy, a zwycięzcą został reprezentant Norwegii – zespół Secret Garden, którzy za utwór "Nocturne" otrzymał 148 punktów.

(pl) Конкурс песни Евровидение 1995 стал 40-м конкурсом песни Евровидение. Он прошёл 13 мая 1995 года в городе Дублин (Ирландия), в зале «Пойнт-депо». Ирландия стала первой страной, принимавшей конкурс в третий раз подряд. В этой связи BBC предлагала помощь по совместному его проведению в Белфасте. После раздумий представители RTE решили проводить мероприятие самостоятельно, но предупредили о том, что в случае победы ирландского представителя в следующем году они его организовывать не будут.В конкурсе не приняли участие Эстония, Финляндия, Литва, Голландия, Румыния, Словакия и Швейцария, но благодаря возвращению Бельгии, Дании, Израиля, Словении и Турции число участников достигло 23.

Гран-При был вручён Норвегии с песней «Nocturne», исполненной группой Secret Garden. При этом песня содержала лишь 24 слова и сопровождалась длительным соло на скрипке. Россию представлял Филипп Киркоров, занявший 17 место. (ru) Der 40. Eurovision Song Contest fand am 13. Mai 1995 im Point Theatre in Dublin statt. Nach drei irischen Siegen in Folge gewann Norwegen mit Nocturne. (de) Le Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1995 fut la quarantième édition du concours. Il se déroula le samedi 13 mai 1995, à Dublin, en Irlande. Il fut remporté par la Norvège, avec la chanson Nocturne, interprétée par Secret Garden. L’Espagne termina deuxième et la Suède, troisième.

(fr) Il quarantesimo Concorso Eurovisione della Canzone si tenne a Dublino (Irlanda) il 13 maggio 1995. (it) O Festival Eurovisão da Canção (1995) foi o 40º e teve lugar a 13 de Maio de 1995 em Dublin, Irlanda. A apresentadora do evento foi Mary Kennedy. O duo irlando-norueguês Secret Garden foi o vencedor deste festival com a canção Nocturne (Nocturno) que representou a televisão pública norueguesa (NRK). De salientar que esta canção foi quase totalmente interpretada instrumentalmente, sendo a parte vocal muito pequena (poucos segundos), não tendo a letra (em norueguês e inglês) mais que cinco versos. (pt) The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 13 May 1995 in the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. The presenter was Mary Kennedy.

This year's competition was the last with only one host until 18 years later in 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. This contest broke the chain of victories that Ireland enjoyed in 1992, 1993, and 1994. This was Ireland's 3rd year in succession to host the contest - and to mark the 40th show, it was opened with a 4-minute retrospective showing images from the contest's history. The Norwegian group Secret Garden was the winner of this contest with the mostly instrumental song, "Nocturne". Incidentally, Secret Garden's violinist was Fionnuala Sherry, who is Irish. (en) El XL Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión tuvo lugar el 13 de mayo de 1995 en el Point Theatre de Dublín, Irlanda, con Mary Kennedy de presentadora.Secret Garden fue la banda vencedora con el tema new-age "Nocturne".

El tema representante de Noruega, que era en su mayor parte instrumental y constaba de tan solo 24 palabras, consiguió 148 votos, muy por delante de la segunda clasificada, España, que consiguió 119. Ésta ha sido, hasta la fecha, la última ocasión en la que España ha quedado en el "Top-5". Desde entonces, la posición más alta alcanzada por un representante español ha sido la sexta de Marcos Llunas (en 1997) y de David Civera en (2001).

Suecia, que comenzó liderando la votación en un mano a mano con Noruega, acabaría ocupando la tercera plaza al ser adelantada por Anabel Conde (es) Het Eurovisiesongfestival 1995 was het veertigste Eurovisiesongfestival en vond plaats op 13 mei 1995 in Dublin, Ierland.Het programma werd gepresenteerd door Mary Kennedy.Van de 23 deelnemende landen won Noorwegen met het nummer Nocturne, uitgevoerd door Secret Garden.Dit lied kreeg 148 punten, 11,1% van het totaal aantal punten.Met 119 punten werd Spanje tweede, gevolgd door Zweden op de derde plaats met 100 punten.

(nl) 第40回ユーロビジョン・ソング・コンテスト(Eurovision Song Contest 1995)は、1995年5月13日(土曜日)にアイルランド・ダブリンのポイント劇場で開催された。製作：RTÉアイルランド放送協会。プレゼンター マリー・ケネディで、アイルランド語と英仏の3ヶ国語を使用。オープニングでは、コンテストの40年を振り替えるビデオ・プログラムが上映された。放送時間2時間51分。 (ja) 40.

Konkurs Piosenki Eurowizji został zorganizowany 13 maja 1995 roku w Point Theatre w Dublinie przez irlandzkiego nadawcę Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), dzięki zwycięstwu reprezentantów Irlandii – Paula Harringtona i Charliego McGettigana podczas konkursu w 1994 roku.Koncert finałowy prowadziła Mary Kennedy, a zwycięzcą został reprezentant Norwegii – zespół Secret Garden, którzy za utwór "Nocturne" otrzymał 148 punktów. (pl) Конкурс песни Евровидение 1995 стал 40-м конкурсом песни Евровидение. Он прошёл 13 мая 1995 года в городе Дублин (Ирландия), в зале «Пойнт-депо». Ирландия стала первой страной, принимавшей конкурс в третий раз подряд.

В этой связи BBC предлагала помощь по совместному его проведению в Белфасте. (ru) Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión 1995 (es) Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1995 (fr) Festival Eurovisão da Canção 1995 (pt) Eurovision Song Contest 1995 - WOW.com Eurovision Song Contest 1995 Video montage commemorating the history of the Eurovision Song Contest for its 40th edition. Interval act Participating countries Countries that participated in the past but not in 1995 Vote • 1996► The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 13 May 1995 in the Point Theatre in Dublin , Ireland . The presenter was Mary Kennedy . This year's competition was the last with only one host until 18 years later in 2013 in Malmö, Sweden . This contest broke the chain of victories that Ireland enjoyed in 1992 , 1993 , and 1994 .

This was Ireland's 3rd year in succession to host the contest - and to mark the 40th show, it was opened with a 4-minute retrospective showing images from the contest's history. The Norwegian group Secret Garden was the winner of this contest with the mostly instrumental song, " Nocturne ". Incidentally, Secret Garden's violinist was Fionnuala Sherry , who is Irish. Two of Ireland's winners attended the contest; Dana , who was Ireland's first winner, winning the contest in 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", and Mr Eurovision himself, Johnny Logan , winning the contest as a singer in 1980 and 1987 ("What's Another Year?" and "Hold me Now" respectively), and also for writing Linda Martin 's 1992 winning song "Why Me?". It was his birthday that night, but according to host Kennedy, "He wouldn't say which one!" Nonetheless, the audience sang " Happy Birthday " for him, assisted by the orchestra. After winning the 1994 contest, RTÉ were worried about whether they could afford to host a third consecutive contest in 1995.

The BBC had offered to take on the responsibility of hosting the contest, and had even proposed that the contest be staged as a joint production in Belfast , capital of Northern Ireland . In the end RTÉ decided to stage the contest on its own. However they did ask the EBU that, should Ireland win once more, that they would not be expected to host the event for a fourth year in a row. [1] The favourite to win the contest, according to bookmakers, was Sweden with the pop-ballad "Se på mig". Other countries in contention for the win were Croatia , Denmark , Israel , Spain , and the eventual winner, Norway . The winning song was something new at Eurovision in that it contained only 24 words accompanied by long violin solos. The United Kingdom contributed a modern rap number, while the previous year’s runner-up, Poland , went for something that completely contrasted with their début entry. After the voting was completed, Norway was the winner with 148 points, followed by Spain 's "Vuelve conmigo" with 119 points, and Sweden gaining 100 points.

The stage was designed by Alan Farquharson who also designed the set of the 1993 contest that took place in Millstreet , Ireland. Although it was quite dark and often gloomy in appearance, it did form the basis for a spectacular opening whereby a giant screen rotated to reveal the presenter who descended a stairway which ultimately disappeared to allow for the arrow shaped stage to come together amid fireworks. The interval act consisted of several well known Irish performers including Clannad , Brian Kennedy (who would go on to actually represent Ireland 11 years later as well as collaborate with the winning group) and was composed by leading musician Michael O'Suilleabhan . The EBU decreased the number of participants back to 23 to make sure the show wouldn't last longer than 3 hours. 5 of the 6 countries that were relegated the previous year came back to the contest, Luxembourg decided to stop participating completely and Italy withdrew voluntarily, as in 1994. There was much speculation in Ireland as to whether RTÉ had deliberately chosen a song perceived as not having a good chance of winning in order to avoid hosting the contest for a fourth time in a row - although this was never verified.

This rumour did, however inspire a popular episode of Father Ted . In any event, RTÉ ended up hosting the contest once again in 1997. Contents Eurovision Song Contest 1995 | Eurovision Song Contest Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Eurovision Song Contest 1995 Share Eurovision Song Contest 1995 Secret Garden brought Norway to their second win - ten years after Bobbysocks! topped the scoreboard. Rolf Løvland wrote both winning songs. Eurovision Song Contest 1995 Video montage commemorating the history of the Eurovision Song Contest for its 40th edition. Interval Act Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs Nul Points 1996 The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on in the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, a venue used a lot in the 1990s, due to Ireland's long set of wins. The presenter was Mary Kennedy.

This year's competition was the last with only one host, until Petra Mede hosted in 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. This contest broke the chain of victories that Ireland had from 1992, 1993, and 1994. This was Ireland's 3rd year in succession to host the contest - and to mark the 40th show, it was opened with a 4-minute retrospective showing images from the contest's history. The Irish-Norwegian group Secret Garden was the winner of this contest with the mostly instrumental song, " Nocturne ". Secret Garden's violinist was Fionnuala Sherry, who is Irish. The EBU capped the maximum of entrants to 23 so the contest wouldn't be on air for more than three hours. Eurovision 1995 was a year for Scandinavian domination as Norway won, Sweden finished third and Denmark rounding off the top 5. Sweden was the favourite to win the 1995 contest with Jan Johansen . Spain had a surprising second place, their best result since they last achieved 2nd in 1979 with Betty Missiego .

On the other hand, Germany received their second-worst placing as of 2015, putting them in danger of relegation. The regular members of Secret Garden Jan Johansen (Sweden) Barbara Dex Award • Big Five • Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest • Curse of Number Two • Curse of Green • Douze Points! • Eurovision's Greatest Hits • Eurovision National Broadcasters • Executive Supervisor • Founding Seven • Grand Prix • Lynda Woodruff • Marcel Bezençon Awards • Nul Points • Official Rules • OGAE • Pre-Parties • Pre-Song Postcards • Scoreboard • Televoting • The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History • Tie Situation • Top Scoring Songs • Voting Diaspora • Voting Systems • Voting Jury • Withdrawn Songs • Records Trivia There was much speculation in Ireland as to whether RTÉ had deliberately chosen a song perceived as not having a good chance of winning in order to avoid hosting the contest for a fourth time in a row - although this was never verified. This rumour did, however inspire a popular episode of Father Ted (Season 3 episode 5: "A Song For Europe").

In any event, RTÉ ended up hosting the contest once again in 1997 . Eurovision Song Contest 1995 : Map (The Full Wiki) , Ireland . The presenter was Mary Kennedy . This contest broke the chain of victories that Ireland enjoyed in 1992 , 1993 , and 1994 . This was Ireland's 3rd year in succession to host the contest - and to mark the 40th show, it was opened with a 4-minute retrospective showing images from the contest's history. The Norwegian group Secret Garden was the winner of this contest with the mostly instrumental song, " Nocturne ". Incidentally, Secret Garden's violinist was Fionnuala Sherry , who is Irish. After winning the 1994 contest, RTÉ were worried about whether they could afford to host a third consecutive contest in 1995. The BBC had offered to take on the responsibility of hosting the contest, and had even proposed that the contest be staged as a joint production in Belfast , capital of Northern Ireland . In the end RTÉ decided to stage the contest on its own.

However they did ask the EBU that, should Ireland win once more, that they would not be expected to host the event for a fourth year in a row. The favourite to win the contest, according to bookmakers, was Sweden with the pop-ballad "Se på mej". Other countries in contention for the win were Denmark , Slovenia , and the eventual winner, Norway . The winning song was something new at Eurovision in that it contained only 24 words accompanied by long violin solos. The United Kingdom contributed a modern rap number, while the previous year’s runner-up, Poland , went for something that completely contrasted with their début entry. After the first two juries voted, Norway and Sweden both shared first place. Denmark and Spain trailed the two countries, but after the voting was completed, Norway was the winner with 148 points, followed by Spain 's "Vuelve Conmigo" with 119 points, and Sweden gaining 100 points. The stage was designed by Alan Farquharson who also designed the Millstreet 93 set.

Although it was quite dark and often gloomy in appearance, it did form the basis for a spectacular opening whereby a giant screen rotated to reveal the presenter who descended a stairway which ultimately disappeared to allow for the arrow shaped stage to come together amid fireworks. The interval act consisted of several well known Irish performers including Clannad , Brian Kennedy (who would go on to actually represent Ireland 11 years later), and was composed by leading musician Michael O'Suilleabhan . The EBU decreased the number of participants back to 23 to make sure the show wouldn't last longer than 3 hours. 5 of the 6 countries that were relegated the previous year came back to the contest, Luxembourg decided to stop participating completely and Italy withdrew voluntarily, as in 1994 . There was much speculation in Ireland as to whether RTÉ had deliberately chosen a song perceived as not having a good chance of winning in order to avoid hosting the contest for a fourth time in a row - although this was never verified. This rumour did, however inspire a popular episode of Father Ted . In any event, RTÉ ended up hosting the contest once again in 1997.

Individual Entries Eurovision Song Contest 1995 Dublin, Ireland - YouTube Eurovision Song Contest 1995 Dublin, Ireland Last updated on Nov 5, 2013 DATES Final date: 13 May 1995 HOST Venue: Point Theatre (Dublin, Ireland) Presenter(s): Mary Kennedy Director: John Comiskey Host broadcaster: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) Opening act: Video montage commemorating the history of the Eurovision Song Contest for its 40th edition. Interval act: Lumen Returning countries: Belgium, Denmark, Israel, Slovenia & Turkey Withdrawing countries: Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia & Switzerland VOTE Voting system: Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs Nul points: None Winning song: Norway "Nocturne" The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 13 May 1995 in the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. The presenter was Mary Kennedy.

This year's competition was the last with only one host until 18 years later in 2013 in Malmö, Sweden . This contest broke the chain of victories that Ireland enjoyed in 1992, 1993, and 1994. This was Ireland's 3rd year in succession to host the contest - and to mark the 40th show, it was opened with a 4-minute retrospective showing images from the contest's history. The Norwegian group Secret Garden was the winner of this contest with the mostly instrumental song, "Nocturne". Incidentally, Secret Garden's violinist was Fionnuala Sherry, who is Irish. Two of Ireland's winners attended the contest; Dana, who was Ireland's first winner, winning the contest in 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", and Mr Eurovision himself, Johnny Logan, winning the contest as a singer in 1980 and 1987 ("What's Another Year?" and "Hold me Now" respectively), and also for writing Linda Martin's 1992 winning song "Why Me?".

It was his birthday that night, but according to host Kennedy, "He wouldn't say which one"! Nonetheless, the audience sang "Happy Birthday" for him, assisted by the orchestra. After winning the 1994 contest, RTÉ were worried about whether they could afford to host a third consecutive contest in 1995. The BBC had offered to take on the responsibility of hosting the contest, and had even proposed that the contest be staged as a joint production in Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland. In the end RTÉ decided to stage the contest on its own. However they did ask the EBU that, should Ireland win once more, that they would not be expected to host the event for a fourth year in a row. The favourite to win the contest, according to bookmakers, was Sweden with the pop-ballad "Se på mej". Other countries in contention for the win were Croatia, Denmark, Israel, Spain, and the eventual winner, Norway. The winning song was something new at Eurovision in that it contained only 24 words accompanied by long violin solos.

The United Kingdom contributed a modern rap number, while the previous year's runner-up, Poland, went for something that completely contrasted with their début entry. After the voting was completed, Norway was the winner with 148 points, followed by Spain's "Vuelve conmigo" with 119 points, and Sweden gaining 100 points. The stage was designed by Alan Farquharson who also designed the set of the 1993 contest that took place in Millstreet, Ireland. Although it was quite dark and often gloomy in appearance, it did form the basis for a spectacular opening whereby a giant screen rotated to reveal the presenter who descended a stairway which ultimately disappeared to allow for the arrow shaped stage to come together amid fireworks. The interval act consisted of several well known Irish performers including Clannad, Brian Kennedy (who would go on to actually represent Ireland 11 years later as well as collaborate with the winning group) and was composed by leading musician Michael O'Suilleabhan. The EBU decreased the number of participants back to 23 to make sure the show wouldn't last longer than 3 hours.

5 of the 6 countries that were relegated the previous year came back to the contest, Luxembourg decided to stop participating completely and Italy withdrew voluntarily, as in 1994. There was much speculation in Ireland as to whether RTÉ had deliberately chosen a song perceived as not having a good chance of winning in order to avoid hosting the contest for a fourth time in a row - although this was never verified. This rumour did, however inspire a popular episode of Father Ted. In any event, RTÉ ended up hosting the contest once again in 1997. less Final date: 13 May 1995 HOST Venue: Point Theatre (Dublin, Ireland) Presenter(s): Mary Kennedy

Question: In 1995 the group 'Secret Garden' won the Eurovision Song Contest with 'Nocturne'. Which country did they represent?
Answer: NORWAY